\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Boyish Orchestra Pit Doctorate
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Flushed Flickering Stead Regret
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Flushed Flickering Stead Regret
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Flushed Flickering Stead Regret
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
scarlet institution
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
floppy coldplay fan
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Angry pistol
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Buck-toothed bull headed meetinghouse boistinker
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
scarlet institution
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
scarlet institution
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
scarlet institution
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Wine Talented Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Shaky Business Firm Brethren
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
insecure lime rehab
  02/07/12
wow cr
Chrome unhinged hominid clown
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
bat shit crazy public bath
  02/07/12
TITCR
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Poppy university
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Poppy university
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
180 costumed sandwich national security agency
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
scarlet institution
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Frum stage wagecucks
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
180 costumed sandwich national security agency
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
stubborn friendly grandma
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
floppy coldplay fan
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Razzle-dazzle Outnumbered Lodge
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
slippery temple
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
opaque incel
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Impressive ruddy ceo
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Poppy university
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
stubborn friendly grandma
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
floppy coldplay fan
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Angry pistol
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
floppy coldplay fan
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Angry pistol
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
slippery temple
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Tripping bearded area dragon
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
slippery temple
  06/20/22
big fan
beady-eyed nibblets
  06/20/22
...
Honey-headed Painfully Honest Theater Stage
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
chartreuse church building knife
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Exciting ticket booth
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Brindle den personal credit line
  06/20/22
cia stooge
i gave my cousin head
  05/03/26


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:04 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do that, yet he is revered as one of the greatest artists of all time. Why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916184)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

Typical Jackson Pollock painting:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.number-8.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916191)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Boyish Orchestra Pit Doctorate

that's pretty dope

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916224)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Flushed Flickering Stead Regret

he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even heard the word fuck said out loud before

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916201)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: Bill Richmond ((zurich is stained))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#49862225)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night

great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, releasing the awesome energy of creation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916202)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figurative art. Rubens is rolling in his grave.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916206)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Flushed Flickering Stead Regret

dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol @ you PPL WHO CAN READ SENTENCES ARE ROLLING IN THEY'RE GRAVES

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916216)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916235)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Flushed Flickering Stead Regret

actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that you deserve to have your ENTIRE junk - cock and both balls - bitten off by an animal from the sea. ymmv.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916279)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night

ur beautiful when ur hungry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916285)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night

abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in seeing the world, pardon the homily

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916221)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: scarlet institution

abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is actually quite confining. If you paint to please the eye or to tell a story in a direct way or to be clever but have recognizable depictions your art is immediately deemed unintellectual and therefore not worthy of being taken seriously but the art world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916252)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: floppy coldplay fan

Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919346)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: Angry pistol

(no homily)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919157)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Buck-toothed bull headed meetinghouse boistinker

Pollock could also have painted really well in a more traditional style. guy had talent. he chose to express himself this way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916234)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The guy was obviously having a laugh throwing random bollocks on a canvas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916239)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night

Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's left is E=mc^2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713874)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: scarlet institution

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916214)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916225)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: scarlet institution

I didn't say he was...his art is.

Academics took over the artworld making ideas more important than the art itself. It became tired and old and very out of date to paint something that is aesthetically pleasing (or, gasp, realistic)...art became more about theory and the idea behind the work than the art itself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916242)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

Ok. How would you interpret this painting?

http://thefrontblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/jackson-pollock1.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916249)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: scarlet institution

I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916258)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Wine Talented Step-uncle's House

lol MagicEye noob

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916297)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Shaky Business Firm Brethren

Well that was uninformed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916259)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: insecure lime rehab

basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever will make you look like you "get it" while making middle class Christians go "wtf is the point." content is irrelevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916248)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Chrome unhinged hominid clown

wow cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919144)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: bat shit crazy public bath

he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended up creating trite and obvious art in the process. sort of like Salvador Dali.

it's art that had inevitably to be done by someone, but it's not very good. Pollock also seemed retarded .

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916256)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

TITCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916263)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Poppy university

weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg

now thats art

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916267)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: insanely creepy hyperventilating parlour queen of the night

conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could only see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916280)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Poppy university

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919123)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: 180 costumed sandwich national security agency

I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to behold in person.

The same for Rothko:

http://i.imgur.com/cSYRI.jpg

I would love to go to the Rothko Chapel if i'm ever in Houston.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916298)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: scarlet institution

It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916301)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Frum stage wagecucks

LOL, just LOL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916311)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: 180 costumed sandwich national security agency

If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement and the ability behind it, you fail at a certain level of appreciation. As the pumo above implies, I think you should separate the art and the artist when applying criticism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19916344)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: stubborn friendly grandma

Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was drawn by my 4 year old

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919110)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: floppy coldplay fan

Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that don't do them justice at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919331)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Outnumbered Lodge

Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge irl, brilliant use of space and color

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919353)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: slippery temple

I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Motherwell's Spanish elegies?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713666)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: opaque incel

great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his ideas came seems increasingly irrelevant now. We're not caught up in the teleological compulsion towards 'purer' representation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919089)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Impressive ruddy ceo

If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919114)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Poppy university

the credited summary if u mad about this:

http://www.tomwolfe.com/PaintedWord.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919139)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: stubborn friendly grandma

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919172)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: floppy coldplay fan

Now THIS is painting:

http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic/Thomas%20Kinkade/big/NASCAR%20THUNDER.JPG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919333)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: Angry pistol

Oh What a Painter!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919595)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: floppy coldplay fan

IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Pollock is just trite and stick-in-the-mud. Abstract expressionism helped break things open in art, but people don't really make that much out of it anymore beyond its historical importance. Meanwhile there are all kinds of awesomely awesome contemporary painters doing all kinds of cool stuff that really has nothing to do with splattering paint or shitting on canvass or whatever example conservatards use as angry jerkoff material.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919361)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: Angry pistol

one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on this tweetblawg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919600)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: slippery temple

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713680)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Tripping bearded area dragon

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1/00newartist1-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713691)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: slippery temple

lol. I was being serious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713848)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: beady-eyed nibblets

big fan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713871)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Honey-headed Painfully Honest Theater Stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713879)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: chartreuse church building knife

movie on him on netflix

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#19919367)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Exciting ticket booth

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713016)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Brindle den personal credit line

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#44713897)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

cia stooge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2...id..#49862223)